Julius Caesar

Synopsis: A video recording, on a single camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1983 production of Julius Caesar directed by Ron Daniels. David Schofield as Mark Antony and Joseph O’Conor as Julius Caesar.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 5 Jan 1984
Duration: 165 mins

Director

Ron Daniels

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Nigel Hess

Production Design

Farrah

Costume

Ann Curtis

Cast

Joseph O’Conor	Julius Caesar
David Schofield	Mark Antony
Paul Clayton (2)	Decius Brutus
Emrys James	Caius Cassius
Gemma Jones	Portia
Charles Lawson	Servant (to Antony)
Clyde Pollitt	Cobbler
Craig Priestley	Boy (alt)
Cyril Nri	Lucius
David Killick	Popillius
Doyle Richmond	Pindarus
Eileen Page	Lady
Griffith Jones	Soothsayer
Jeremy Wilkin	Cinna
John Dicks	Casca
John Dicks	Soldier poet
John Nolan	Trebonius
John Nolan	Clitus
Lesley Duff	Calphurnia
Lewis Jones	Artemidorus
Lewis Jones	Lucilius
Morrison Campbell	Carpenter
Nigel Cooke	Octavius Caesar
Oliver Ford Davies	Titinius
Oliver Ford Davies	Murellus
Paul Mooney	Metellus Cimber
Paul Mooney	Young Cato
Peter Lennon	Servant to Caesar (Servant (to Julius Caesar))
Peter McEnery	Marcus Brutus
Raymond Platt	Cinna the Poet
Raymond Platt	Publius
Richard Garnett	Servant (to Octavius Caesar)
Richard Garnett	Servant (to Julius Caesar)
Richard Garnett	Varrus
Roger Hume	Flavius
Roger Hume	Messala
Simone Irvine	Boy (alt)
Stanley Dawson	Caius Ligarius
Stanley Dawson	Volumnius
Timothy Kightley	Cicero
Timothy Kightley	Lepidus
Victoria Wicks	Plebeian woman (Plebeian)

General: "A television screen is lowered. It shows us, in grainy black and white, the murder of Caesar, and the two great speeches of Brutus and Antony at the same time these events are taking place on stage - the fashioning of instant History through celluloid images." Christopher Edwards, Plays and Players (April 1983).
History: Press night 29 March 1983.
Stills: Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
Reviews: Michael Billington, The Guardian (31 March 1983).

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
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Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
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Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
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